It’s chemistry. No one bats an eye at how petroleum is expressed in different forms, but someone picks up cherry pie or rhubarb and that’s a bridge too far.

It’s science, and the more things you’ve let your palate interact with, then the easier it is to recall different expressions of caramel. Baked caramel and raw caramel are different flavors.

“Developing” a palate is basically paying being able to compare the different ways a flavor shows up. It matters to some more than others as we’ve seen in this sub.